From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 21 19:34:10 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8459016A41F for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:34:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scphantm@yahoo.com) Received: from smtp106.plus.mail.re1.yahoo.com (smtp106.plus.mail.re1.yahoo.com [69.147.102.69]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 247EA13C45A for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:34:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scphantm@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 93604 invoked from network); 21 Jun 2007 19:07:28 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:Subject:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=DGXddgzcL/1shN6ZPTgD9y42yrD4FMRCsaSTW2MuMrQlSlToNPsgTv+4/zpSxMDfHyaN8YOCbtwtlX5H9JJ8jLPhaDa8TU7sEZyisIimsQ3sc4ujb10HLrJ4VouTmFJgvt12GNTomym3cGrdnezPI2ISY5v9VciSxO+HbmNyUqo= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.100?) (scphantm@65.35.191.170 with plain) by smtp106.plus.mail.re1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 21 Jun 2007 19:07:27 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: Z6UqFhkVM1kgjNf5UfO44Txxqmp9ioxuTbvaaHiUhEeV7vQgeIf7Ylh4eBMNiS1KadqJZgvwgw-- Message-ID: <467ACC6F.8010907@yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:07:27 -0400 From: Steel City Phantom User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: remounting a drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:34:10 -0000 ok, i had a working bsd system. i shut it down, and removed a drive from it to use in another computer i turn it on and i get mounting errors, nothing unsual, can't find drives from the manualroot prompt i put in the path to the root partition to the drive that is still in the machine i boot to single user mode im now trying to edit my fstab so i can boot normally (the drive numbers moved from ad1 to ad0 because i removed a hardrive) i can see all the files, i mounted my /usr partition, but for some reason i can't remount the / parition to edit the fstab. when i enter the command mount -o rw / i get operation not permitted. i tried mount -o rw /dev/ad1s1 / and mount -o rw /dev/ad0s1 /and got the same thing. ive used this in the past and it works, i don't know why its not working now. any ideas? bsd 6.2 if it matters when i do mount /dev/ad1s1 on / (ufs, local, read-only) devfs on /dev (devfs, local) /dev/ad1s1f on /usr/ (ufs, local, soft-updates) thanks willie